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A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran,
who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian,
is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and now on the brink of war with the United States.
She is one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of a fracture at the intersection of adoption and immigration law.
 
The woman, who The Associated Pres…

Woman adopted by American war veteran faces deportation to Iran
A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and on the brink of war with the United States. She is one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of a legal loophole. The woman, who The Associated Press is not naming because of her legal situation, received a letter this month order…

I’ll raise a quiet glass to Robert Mueller here. In the public mind, he was first the messianic savior of democracy and then an emblem of inadequacy and institutional failure — and both those visions did him a disservice.
He tried to do the right thing in a principled way. His effort failed, and we’ve paid dearly for that failure. The failure was his, but also all of ours to share: for every one of his choices that I can second-guess, I can name half a dozen places where others failed to hold up their/our end of the bargain, took the work he handed off and dropped it flat.
He failed, but he tried his damndest — and that’s more than I can say for a lot of folks in the USA over the last 10 years.

So if potus is sending ice agents to airports, how long until they shoot someone to death in a concourse.
Deprivation of civil rights in the Duty Free, state sponsored human trafficking before baggage claim, summary executions between the McDonald’s and the Cinnabon.
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Trump says ICE will work airport security unless Democrats fund DHS
President Donald Trump says he'll order federal immigration officers to take a role soon in airport security unless Democrats agree on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. In a pair of social media posts, Trump first threatened and then said he'd made plans to put officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in airports beginning Monday if the congressional standoff continues. He made the announcement as a partial shutdown contributes to long lines to get through screen…

Artist Shepard Fairey is best known for the Obama “Hope” poster
Some of his recent artworks depict ICE agents with labels like “Domestic Terrorist,”
used by Trump administration officials to describe protesters who oppose the administration's immigration crackdown.
Fairey says that while he doesn’t think of his art as propaganda, he also doesn’t shy away from the label.
“It's meant to initiate a conversation, a counternarrative that isn’t happening in a robust…

Shepard Fairey on Art, Activism & Resisting Fascism: “It Can Happen Here, and It Is”
We speak with artist Shepard Fairey, best known for the Obama “Hope” poster, about the role of art in politics, the rise of fascism in the United States and more. Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman spoke with Fairey in Los Angeles last week and toured his studio. Some of his recent artworks depict ICE agents with labels like “Domestic Terrorist,” used by Trump administration officials to describe protesters who oppose the administration's immigration crackdown. Fairey says that while he doesn…

I read this piece this morning ... it is worth reading..
The headline is misleading.
"Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done"
The "Everyone" here is more about other countries than about every human.
But that is a useful view because it highlights how trump has become an overt danger to all other countries.
The thought that crossed my mind was this: The leaders and people of those countries now have solid grounds to consider trump an e…

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

One month later, the DHS shutdown shows no signs of ending (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/13/democrats-republicans-dhs-shutdown-00827135
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p8#a260313p8

House votes for a short term extension to warrantless surveillance law -- in a setback to Trump plan
The House of Representatives voted early on Friday to briefly extend an expiring and controversial law that grants the US government sweeping powers for warrantless surveillance.
The decision to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa) until 30 April came via unanimous consent
shortly after 208 Democrats and 20 Republicans came together to defea…

House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) issued a subpoena to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday, demanding she testify before lawmakers over her handling of the Epstein files.
The move came after five Republicans on the committee joined their Democratic colleagues in supporting Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) motion to call on Bondi to testify earlier this month.

When Joseph Stalin took the stage, applause wasn’t just standard. It meant your freedom. 
As the crowd thundered with cheers, no one dared to break first.
Not after two minutes. Not after four. Not after six.
As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in “The Gulag Archipelago,” “It was becoming insufferably silly even to those who adored Stalin.” 
Finally, after 11 minutes, one man
— the director of a paper factory
— broke the spell.
And with that one act o…

Who will be the first to take off their shoes?
Across Washington, D.C., a new fashion trend has taken hold of those in Trump’s circle: embarrassingly oversized clown shoes.